They smoked in the coffeehouses – so much so that Bill Cosby, who was also hanging around the scene but a preppy, came over to the pair and suggested that they shouldn't smoke so much pot. The pair became friends instantly and began what became a lifetime event of meandering around and talking - always high on grass or hash. It was an era that ushered in beatniks, music, peace and love, marijuana and booze – all of which both men actively participated in. Victor Maymudes, a singer himself, first met Dylan when the singer arrived in New York's Greenwich Village in 1961 and began playing at the coffeehouses on MacDougal street to earn enough money for food. Dylan visited rarely and Dennis filed for divorce four years after the marriage, which became final in October 1992. She resided in Tarzana, California, a suburb of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley, when Dylan let his backup singers go. Victor died in 2001 but he left a treasure trove of insights and revelations about his sidekickĭesiree announced she was going to marry her partner Kayla Sampson in September 2013 when California lifted the ban on same sex marriage.ĭylan and this wife, Carolyn Dennis, were never photographed together in public. Inseparable: Bob Dylan and Victor were friends for 40 years. She wanted a personal identity beyond that of wife and mother'. 'Sara was isolated in general, for the spotlight was always on Bob. He bought a two hundred year-old hacienda up in the Santa Barbara hills as a private retreat for Sara. He moved his family out to Los Angeles and bought land on the coast in Malibu. Sara and Bob had moved out of Woodstock and had homes in New York's Greenwich Village and a summer home on Long Island.ĭylan confessed to Maymudes that his fame had become frustrating, 'a kind of prison that closed in around him and made him fear for his own safety and that of his family. Joan, now 73, was immediately successful after starting her singing and activist career in 1960, and was constantly in demand and on the road performing some of Dylan's songs, helping to make him famous as well as lots of money. When Dylan was writing, Sara sought out Victor and they'd go off and smoke dope together. The shy and quiet Sara Lownds had been hanging around Bearsville and the music scene at the time. 'If Bob was a king, Joan was a queen, and Bob didn't want a queen. 'Bob didn't want to compete with her', Maymudes says.
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